1032010 - Closing Firefox with killall causes Reset or Safe Mode dialog on next start

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 336193

(Firefox :: Shell Integration, defect)

Description

[Denis Averin]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.9; rv:30.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/30.0 (Beta/Release)
Build ID: 20140605174243

Steps to reproduce:

open Firefox,
run "killall firefox" in terminal
wait for firefox process finish
open Firefox again

Here is shell commands to reproduce:
'while true; do open /Applications/Firefox.app; sleep 3; killall firefox; while [ $(pgrep firefox) ]; do sleep 0.5; done; done'


Actual results:

Firefox shows "Reset or Safe Mode" dialog
This appears only after some restarts


Expected results:

Firefox should start without asking for reset because was closed correctly

Comment 1

[:Gijs (he/him)]

I suspect this is essentially just a dupe of bug 336193, because the signal handling will mean that we don't think we've shut down cleanly, and that's what's causing the dialog. I don't think this is worth bandaid/workaround-ing separately from the signal handling.